Obama Avoids Test On Gays In Military

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From The Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has decided to accept an appeals-court ruling that could undermine the military's ban on service members found to be gay.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco last year ruled that the government must justify the expulsion of a decorated officer solely because she is a lesbian. The court rejected government arguments that the law banning gays in the military should have a blanket application, and that officials shouldn't be required to argue the merits in her individual case.

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My Comment: He can avoid all he wants .... but his political base wants him to move on this, and I expect that with time he will.